What I am wondering is if Sheila Jackson Lee buys economy tickets then demands to be upgraded to 1st class.
I heard that is what she does - buy economy/ demand to be upgraded. She cannot spend HER money, doncha know? and after all, SHE is an aristocrat and you are not.
Yes,that is exactly what happens. This passenger was returning home to find that United had given up her seat. They later told that passenger that the passenger had cancelled their reservation from a mobile app.
If you are headed home, tired, you do not give up a first class seat on the whim of finding another flight.
Some one at United bumped this passenger to make a seat open for SJLee
Not her money buying the ticket, it’s yours and mine. She just demands a 1st class seat at the counter and pays full price and doesn’t care who they bump. If she doesn’t get her way, she immediately cries racism.
“What I am wondering is if Sheila Jackson Lee buys economy tickets then demands to be upgraded to 1st class.”
She’s in United’s frequent flyer program. We pay for a business class or coach ticket for her, she earns miles flying back and forth and uses them for upgrades, and we’re paying for all of it. That has nothing to do with the “bumping” of other passengers though, United probably has $hit on their corporate lips from kissing SJL’s ample rear end.